Monday, November 07, 2022
Justice
Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 309-314 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth):
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"For a word of hate let a word of hate be said," Justice cries out as she exacts the debt, "and for a murderous stroke let a murderous stroke be paid." "Let it be done to him as he does," says the age-old wisdom.Hesiod, fragment 286 (tr. Glenn W. Most):
ἀντὶ μὲν ἐχθρᾶς γλώσσης ἐχθρὰ
γλῶσσα τελείσθω· τοὐφειλόμενον 310
πράσσουσα Δίκη μέγ᾽ ἀυτεῖ·
ἀντὶ δὲ πληγῆς φονίας φονίαν
πληγὴν τινέτω. δράσαντι παθεῖν,
τριγέρων μῦθος τάδε φωνεῖ.
If someone sowed evils, he would reap evil profits;Pindar, Nemean Odes 4.32 (tr. John Sandys):
if he suffered what he committed, the judgment would be straight.
εἰ κακά τις σπείραι, κακὰ κέρδεά κ' ἀμήσειεν·
εἴ κε πάθοι, τά τ’ ἔρεξε, δίκη κ' ἰθεῖα γένοιτο.
'Tis fitting that whoso doeth aught should suffer also.Sophocles, fragment 223b Radt, 229 Pearson (my translation):
ῥέζοντά τι καὶ παθεῖν ἔοικεν.
For the one who does something ought also to suffer.
τὸν δρῶντα γάρ τι καὶ παθεῖν ὀφείλεται.
